Scott made me do it.
Alexander Cherepanov
cherepan at mccme.ru
Sat Aug 22 16:43:34 UTC 2009
Hi Andrew!
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:22:00 -0400, Andrew Lewman <andrew at torproject.org> wrote:
>>> Sorry my ignorance but why caching proxy is better than built-in
>>> Firefox cache?
>>
>> Enabling torbutton disables firefox cache. I didn't test non-tor
>> firefox caching.
> Thinking about this some more, torbutton doesn't disable Firefox memory
> caching.
I've just checked Torbutton doc and the situation turns out to be more
intricate. There is an option in Torbutton which turns memory cache
off (extensions.torbutton.block_cache, see
https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/design/#id2998213 ). The reason
is probably to avoid tracking via stored unique identifiers (item 5 in
https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/design/#attacks ). So the
question is whether caching is acceptable from anonymity POV.
When using the cache in Firefox the issue could be mitigated by
SafeCache plugin. External caches are harder to defend (maybe checking
referer could help?).
Alexander Cherepanov
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